Apparatus for registering monetary transactions.



PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

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AlPLIUATION FILED JULY 17, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

J ULES FRYDMANE, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764:,149, dated July 5, 1904. Original application filed September 21, 1901, icrial No. 76,027. Divided and this application filed July 17, 1903. Serial To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I. J ULES FRYDMANE, a citi- Zen of the Republic of France, residing in Paris, France, have invented Improvements in Apparatus for Registering Monetary Transactions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to such a cash-register as is described in my United States Patent No. 738,670, issued September 8, .1903, and has for its object to adapt such a machine so as to divide commercial transactions into two categories-debit and creditand to record such transactions in separate columns on a record-strip.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of my invention to show the carriage-shiftingmechanism. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation to show the composing-wheel-return mechanism and means for operating the printing-table. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the table. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 5 is a partial sectional view through the composing-wheels, printingwheels, and table. Fig. 6 is a detail to show means for returning the table to normal position upon the operation of the handle, and Fig. 7 is a plan of a section of a record-strip.

As shown, there are in the apparatus, arranged side by side and loosely mounted on a transverse stationary shaft (0, supported by the side frame 0 of the machine, a certain number of wheels, (herein called composingwheels,) whereby the apparatuscan be set. Each of these wheels comprises a ring (Z, connected to aboss e by means of a single arm f. Its periphery has circular recesses g, triangular notches it, teeth 1', and a smooth portion 3'. The set of circular recesses and the set of triangular notches, which in the example are ten each, subtend equal angles.

Each of the circular recesses g is provided with a number, letter, or other sign corresponding to the position of the wheelto which it belongs. Thus for the wheels (seven in number) indicated by the reference-letter k the circular recesses are provided with numbers from O to 9, and for those (two in number) indicated by the reference-letter m (No model.)

the circular recesses are provided with lotters or initials, and for the single disk (inclicated by the reference-letter) the circular re- U 3L t cesses are provided with signs Ru, Vcd, or the like, corresponding to the expressions sold and credit-sale, &c.that is to say, to transactions known in business under the name of "credits or payments from the cash-box. It will be seen at once that the wheel a is engaged by a pin 0, that enters a hole 2) in a toothed wheel 9, which is fixed to the composing-wheel in question.

To each of the composing-wheels there is rigidly fixed a toothed wheel q, engaging with a pinion r, whose spindle s, which is parallel to the fixed shaft 0, carries at its end, outside the side frame, a pinion t in engagement with a toothed wheel 4), loosely mounted on parts of the fixed shaft (0 outside the side frame of the apparatus. The toothed wheels 'v are respectively fixed to thin disks to, on the peripheries of which there are formed characters reproducing exactly and in the same order the numbers, letters, or other signs of the circular recesses in the corresponding composingwheels.

The printing-disks w are located at the right handof the group of composing-wheels.

The spindles s, that connect the disks with the composing-wheels, are arranged circularly around the fixed shaft a and in such a way as to leave a suflicient space for the movement of the arms f between the outside spindles s to accord with the angle subtended by the group of circular recesses g or that of the triangular notches h.

WVhen the apparatus is at rest, the composing-wheels are in such positions that their arms f abut against a fixed bar 2, arranged in the interior of the wheels, and that the first of the circular recesses of each composing-wheel is located opposite to a fixed transverse bar 1. This bar serves as an abutment for the finger of the operator while operating the composing-wheels.

Vith the triangular notches it of each of the composing-wheels there engages a detent 2, mounted on a transverse shaft 3 and acted upon by a spring adapted to hold it in engagement with the corresponding notch. The object of the detents.2 is to insure that the composing-wheels will remain in the positions in which they are placed by the operator.' The detents 2 are triangular, and they have surfaces against which there bears at a certain moment an eccentric catch 1, which acts on all the detents and is fixed on a transverse shaft. The function of the catch 4 will be described later.

On the fixed shaft (0 of the composingwheels there are mounted loosely arms 5, connected together by means of a transverse bar 6 and connected by links 7 to levers 8, that oscillate on the shaft 9 and are provided with rollers 10, which bear under the influence of a spring ll on cams 12, keyed on the camshaft 13. V

The bar 6 (herein called the resettingbar) occupies when at rest the position shown in Fig. 2. It is adapted to act under the in fluence of the cams 12 on the arms f of the composing-wheels that have been more or less moved in setting the apparatus and to return them all, no matter in what positions they may be, to their normal positions.

The record-strip, Fig. 7, is a strip of paper 1 1, on the left-hand portion of which there are printed in columns the debits or receipts,while the right-hand portion is reserved for the payments or credit transactions, which are also placed in columns. The record-strip is mounted on a carriage located below the printing-disks m. It is unwound from a reel 15, passes over a tension device 16, over an oscillating table 17, and under a feed-roll 18, and is finally wound on a reel 19.

The supply-reel 15 is mounted on pivots between two side frames 20 and 21. The tension device 16 is mounted to rotate at the ends of two levers 22, which oscillate on the said side frames.

The feed-roll 18 is mounted on a shaft that rotates in the side frames 20 and 21 and of which one of the ends carries a ratchet-wheel 23, with which a pawl 2 1 engages at the proper time for the purpose of rotating the roll 18 and feeding the registering-strip.

The winding-up reel 19 is mounted at the ends of levers 25, which are mounted .on the supported by a toggle-joint 28, connected at one end to the table 17 and fixed at the other end on the transverse shaft 29, which by its rotation at the proper time causes the togglejointtomove. and raise the table in such a way as to press the strip of paper located thereon against the printing-disks m. The table 17 has an extension 30, to the outer end of which there is connected a pawl 24, so that each time the table oscillates the ratchet-wheel 23 is moved forwardfor' example, by one tooth-and thus effects the rotation of the feed-roll 18.

The side frames 20 and 21 of the carriage are suitably stayed in such a way as to form a rigid frame, and one of them, 21, carries sockets 31, which are mounted with slight friction on rods 32, rigidly attached to the side frame 0 of the apparatus. of mounting enables the carriage to be moved transversely, so as to subject to the action of the printing-disks 00 either the right-hand portion or the left-hand portion of the register- I ing-strip that passes over the oscillating table 17. It will be seen that the record-strip can receive from the printing-disks-catwo columns of-print corresponding, for example, on the left hand to the debits and on the right-hand to the credits.

The movement of the carriage of the recordstrip is intimately connected with the liberation of the composing-wheel n, which contains the figures relating to the credits. It has been seen that the composing-wheel n is engaged when at rest by a pin 0, that passes through a hole 10 in the toothed wheel g, which is fixed to the wheel in question. The pin 0 is guided by an arm 33, rigidly fixed to the shaft (4, and is mounted on a lever 34, which is attached to a longitudinal shaft 35, which controls the apparatus at various points and has at the front of the apparatus a handle 36, which the operator moves to the right when This method hewishes to make a credit entry, but which when the operator ceases to act upon it is antomatically moved to the left. The lever 34: is connected to the carriage by a link 37; l/Vhen the pin 0 liberates the composing-wheel a, the carriage is simultaneouslymoved toward the left, so as to present the right-hand portion of the record-strip to the printing-- disks as.

The cam 64: on the shaft 13 operates the oscillating table 17, and thereby prints the registering-strip. The cam 97 on the shaft 13 is provided with a lateral projection 159 and with a circular projection provided with a flange 160, which is cut away opposite to the projection 159 from a point 161 to a point 162. When the apparatus is in its normal state, the flange 160 is not opposite to the pin 163, fixed to the shaft 100, so that the projection 159 can when the cam 97 is moved toward the right come under the action of the pin 163. When the cam-shaft 13 is rotated, the projection 159 comes into contact with the fixed pin 163, which moves toward'the left the cam 97, which is thus returned automatically. At the same time, by reason of the before-mentioned IIO Connection, the handle 36 is also returned toward the left. The object of the flange 160 is to prevent the cam 97 from being accidentally disengaged from the fixed pin 163, and thereby to avoid mistakes in manipulation.

From what has been said it will be seen that the cam-shaft 13 is provided with all the cams requiredfor the operation of the apparatus and that when the composing-wheels have been suitably manipulated by the operator all that is required in order to effect all the operations is to rotate the cam-shaft one revolution. Thismay be effected by hand or mechanically. In the example the operation is effected by means of a crank 175, loosely.

mounted ona fixed shaft 9 and rigidly secured to a toothed wheel 176, which engages with a corresponding wheel 177, keyed on the camshaft 13.

I will now explain the operation of the apparatus. If a debit is in question, the operator who has charge of the apparatus indicates the amount of this debit by means of the composing-wheels it. For a debit, for example, of sixty-seven dollars and thirty cents the operator moves the wheels in question and places them in such a position that they show opposite to the transverse bar 1 the number 67.30. The operator also moves the wheel on so as to place in line with the said number 67.30 one or several letters for example, the letter O corresponding to the name of the salesman. The new position given to the wheels k and m is insured by the detents 2, corresponding thereto, and the number they form is reproduced opposite to the oscillating tables by the printing-disks m, which are connected with the composingwheels and make corresponding movements, as has been hereinbefore described. When this has been efifected, the apparatus is ready to work and the operator has only to cause the cam-shaft 13 to rotate, as by rotating the crank 175 through one revolution. The cams then come into operation successively and produce the following effects: The cam 64: operates, as has already been mentioned, the shafts 29 and 56 for the purposes of causing, on the one hand, the eccentric catch 1 to act on the detents 2, and thereby to insure the holding of the composingwheels in their new positions, and, on the other hand, of raising simultaneously the oscillating table 17 toward the printing-disks m.

If by accident the composing-wheels have not been properly manipulated by the operator--that is to say, if the notches it of these wheels are not exactly'opposite to the detents 2the eccentric catch 1 cannot bear on the flat portions of the detents 2. On the contrary, the catch 4: enters the notch 174 in the detents 2, which prevents any further movement of the shaft 13 until the composingwheels have been placed in their proper positions. Now since the table 17 carries the that is to say, in the column intended for the debits. The pawl 24, which is drawn back when the table 17 is raised, acts during the descent of the table 17 on the ratchet-wheel 23, so as to cause the feed-roll 18 to rotate and to move the registering-strip on the table 17 in such a way that the strip is ready to receive the impression during the next operation ofthe apparatus. The cams 12 come into operation and by means of the resettingbar 6 return all the composingwheels into their original positions.

WVhen itis a question of a credit transaction, 7

the operator manipulates first the handle 36, which he moves toward the right, so as to disengage the composing-wheel a and at the same time to move the record-strip carriage from the normal position of printing the debits toward the left for the purpose of bringing the righthand column, or the column for the credits, under the action of the printing-disks The movement of the handle 36 also slides the cam 97 toward the right, Fig. 6, on the cam-shaft 13 by means of the longitudinal shaft 35. On the subsequent rotation of the cam-shaft 13 the cam 97 will bring its lateral projection 159 against the fixed pin 163, which will produce toward the end of the revolution of the cam-shaft 13 the backward movement of the cam 97 and consequently return the record-strip carriage and the handle 36 into their original positions, the carriage being thus automatically returned to the proper position for the debits.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a printing mechanism, acarriage for a record-strip, means for shifting said carriage to an adjusted position and means for returning said carriage to its normal position upon each operation of the machine.

2. The combination of the printing mechanism adapted to print in difierent columns amounts to the full capacity of the machine, a carriage for a record-strip, means for shifting the said carriage to an adjusted position for printing the desired amount in the desired column, and means for automatically returning said carriage to the normal position after the printing but at the same operation of the machine at which the carriage was shifted.

3. The combination with a group of composing-wheels and a group of corresponding printing-disks operated thereby, of an oscillating table carrying a strip of paper to receive the printed record, a carriage upon which the oscillating table is mounted, means for moving the carriage transversely to bring another column of the strip under the action IIO IIS

' from its normal printing position, and automatic mechanism for restoring it to said normal printing position after the impression has been made and at the same operation.

5. The combination with a group of com- 4 posing-wheels including a credit-wheel, and

printing-disks connected by gearing with the composing-wheels, of a shifting printing-carriage cooperating with the printing-disks, a pin normally locking the credit-wheehand means for unlocking the credit-Wheel and simultaneously shifting the carriage.

6. The combination of the composing- Wheels having each a row of figures or characters and including a credit-wheel which is normally locked, a group of printing-wheels, one connected with and controlled by each of said composing-wheels, a printing-table corresponding with the printingwheels to print an impression, said table being movable transversely so as to print in either of two columns, means for releasing the credit-wheel and simultaneously shifting the printing-table laterally, and means for automatically restor ing said parts to their normal positions after an impression has been taken.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULES FRYDMANE. Witnesses:

LfioN CRANEKEN, AUGUSTUS E. INGRAM. 

